AMBITIOUS Wolves winger Michael Kightly today admitted Wolves are desperate to snare a "natural goalscorer" if they are to turn their Championship promise into an assault on the Premiership.

Kightly continued his incredible transformation from Conference to Championship with another man-of-the-match performance in Saturday's 2-1 defeat to Cardiff, but was left as frustrated as anyone by Wolves' inability to make their chances count.

And he agreed that perhaps the only problem left facing this determined Wolves squad is the need for a more natural poacher alongside the strikers already at the club.

"I think it's clear to see that we need an out and out goalscorer," said Kightly. "Our forwards are very good players, Jay Bothroyd, Craig Davies and Jemal Johnson, but we perhaps need someone who's a natural born goalscorer who can get us the odd scrappy goal or two.

"Stephen Ward has looked lively in training and with a few games under his belt maybe he'll be the man but if we can just get someone scoring goals I'm sure we'll be ok.

"The gaffer knows what he's doing in the transfer market - I think we've got the best manager in the league and have faith in him to help us push on."

Wolves were today believed to be closing in on Scunthorpe's Andy Keogh - who notched his seventh goal of the season on Saturday - and last week narrowly missed out on taking Manchester United star Guiseppi Rossi on loan.

Kightly meanwhile insists that with that missing link Wolves can still mount a sustained challenge for the play-offs.

"Everyone was gutted on Saturday because with the clear cut chances we had we should have beaten Cardiff four or five," he said. "It's a frustrating time at the moment because we get so close to the play-offs and just when we think we can get there we suffer a blip.

"We are determined to get in there and there are still a lot of games to come so if we can carry on performing like we are I'm sure we've got a chance.

"Since I've been here I don't think we've been outplayed once and we've battered the likes of Derby, Barnsley and Stoke.

"But we haven't made it count in terms of points and if we'd won all the games we should have done we'd probably be pushing for automatic promotion."